Romanian parliament simplifies citizenship acquiring procedure
The Parliament of Romania has approved the amendments to the Citizenship Law, proposed by Romanian President Traian Basescu and making the citizenship acquiring procedure substantially easier for Republic of Moldova residents.
In its new shape, the Law permit giving the Romanian citizenship not only to people who lived in Bessarabia [the larger part of the modern Republic of Moldova lying between the Prut and Dniester Rivers, which belonged to Romania in 1918-1940, and went over to the Soviet Union according to the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact signed between Stalin and Hitler in 1939] but also to their descendants – up to the third generation.
Moreover, applicants are permitted to preserve another foreign citizenship and to reside permanently outside Romania.
Now applicants for citizenship do no need to undergo compulsory Romanian language exam as before, so Romanian passports are becoming easier to get for Russian speakers living in the Republic of Moldova.
According to the amendments, in 2010 the Romanian Government will increase the number of members in the Citizenship Directorate to 15 from the current 8, will open extra document acceptance offices, and will reduce the paper-work and document consideration duration down to only 5 months.
Influential Kommersant newspaper of Moscow wrote in this connection that the new Moldovan authorities “do not feel like dramatizing the situation. Moreover, unlike their predecessors, they show understanding of citizens’ desire to obtain Romanian passports that enable traveling to European Union member countries easily, enjoy certain privileges at enrolment to jobs and educational institutions, and at receiving health insurance policies. The new authorities do not share apprehensions about a possible annexation of Moldova by Romania, either”.
Kommersant quoted Moldovan MP Andrei Popov (Democrat) as saying that “according to the official Romanian statistics, only 120 thousand residents of the Republic of Moldova have acquired the Romanian citizenship, while the number of Russian citizens living in Moldova is much higher”.
In his opinion, Bucharest’s actions are equipping Chisinau with an extra argument in its dialog with Brussels on concluding an agreement on a visa-free regime between Moldova and the European Union.
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